Governor Dannel Malloy and Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman will host a Town Hall Forum from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers of City Hall at 24 deKoven Drive in Middletown on Tuesday, Feb. 16, from 7 to 8 p.m.

A point of interest for Old Lyme residents is that Malloy’s choice to head the Connecticut Department of Transportation, James Redeker, also chairs Congress’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) Infrastructure and Operations Advisory Commission.  The Federal Railroad Authority (FRA) is a partner organization of that Commission.

The FRA launched NEC FUTURE in February 2012 “to consider the role of rail passenger service in the context of current and future transportation demands.”  It is NEC FUTURE, which has authored the Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that includes Alternative 1, which calls for a high speed rail=track to be routed through the center of Old Lyme.